“This is a book about disability. Which means this is a book about all of us” That’s the opening line of my new book The Invisible Majority: India’s Abled Disabled. I am a sucker for good opening lines, and I am proud of this one. …

The New Academic Building (NAB) was the newest building at RECW — it was the place where the Computer Science Engineering (CSE) and Electronic & Communication Engineering (ECE) classes were held. Two floors with six large rooms, in theatre style seating, held classes for two branches across four years. Other…

The Yash Chopra movie Darr was released on 29 October 1993, a few days after I entered Regional Engineering College (REC) Warangal. Shah Rukh Khan movies occupy a special place in the hearts of many like me, who did their engineering and lived in a hostel in the mid-90s. If…

IIS concluded on a joyous note. This newspaper (New Indian Express — City Edition) covered it aptly.

The GRIT series is at the intersection of two ideas from writers who have inspired me greatly — Angela Duckworth, author of GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance; and the master storyteller Kurt Vonnegut, who in this simple yet compelling video, explains the arc of storytelling. Why do some…

When you entered REC Warangal (now NIT Warangal), as I did in 1993, you had only one dream — to graduate either with a job or with an admission to an American university (although pursuing an MBA was another option). …

After almost a year and multiple delays caused by Covid-19, the short documentary on Krishna (owner of Bookworm) was launched at Bangalore International Centre on 10 July — the day Krishna completed 25 years in the book industry. It was a momentous occasion marked by the presence of several well-known…

Coldplay had just announced that it would no longer tour until it had reworked their concert experience to not only be carbon neutral but also actively beneficial. In January 2020 SAP approached Coldplay with a proposal: it offered to help build an app that would further the band’s sustainability goals…

When I asked my son Vivaan to write a message for the world, he typed “Raw hope stuck in a spiders web, struggles to be free”. Since he is non-verbal and communicates using a letter board by spelling each word, the process is slow and tedious. So I could not…